The Chinese have been systematically destroying the environment (considered sacred by the Tibetans) and religion in Tibet for 57 years and bringing in huge numbers of Chinese to destroy the country’s culture. It is estimated that hundreds of Tibetans have been killed in the last week while the Chinese propaganda machine tells its own people that the Tibetans are killing Chinese shopkeepers.

In a move that is beyond cynicism, the Chinese government, based on atheism, has declared that only it may choose the reincarnations of Tibetan lamas including the Panchen lama, a situation where the child chosen as the incarnation by the Tibetan Buddhists has been jailed for years (a young child) and replaced by a Chinese choice.

The quote above is from Zhang Qingli, Secretary of the Communist Party for Tibet.

We must not support Western sponsors of the Summer Olympics in China. Support for these sponsors is support for state-sponsored human rights abuse and terrorism.

As I write this oil prices are at $105.97, an historical high. So what is US policy on energy? Apparently it consists of our President begging OPEC to increase production to bring prices down, which they refused to do. This begging is sickening in its stupidity. Does he not have any understanding of how markets work? We may be OPEC’s biggest customer but they know that China and India will soon surpass us so why lower prices? This administration destroyed our credibility in the Middle East and now doesn’t understand that the oil producing nations may not need us in the long run.

Get ready for $5/gallon gas (which Bush won’t know about until a reporter asks him).

This post by Marc Andreesson, Founder of Netscape and Ning, on an hour and a half conversation with Obama last year is required reading for anyone sitting on the fence between Hillary and Barry.

During a press conference last week Bush asked what he thought about economists’ predictions that we would see $4+ gas prices by early spring. He was surprised and said he had not heard that. This is frightening to say the least. The President of the United States, who started a war over oil that is estimated to cost us $5 trillion dollars before it is over, doesn’t know how much gas costs. I wonder if he knows what a burden this is for the average family- prices have tripled during his administration. And it’s not just gas. Heating oil and energy prices have skyrocketed.

Today oil passed the inflation-adjusted high reached during the Arab Oil Crisis of the late seventies and early eighties. World stock markets are in a tailspin. The House of Representatives have passed a bill ending $17 billion in handouts to oil companies (who made $146 billion in profits last year) and moving that money into alternative energy tax credits. These credits are critical to encouraging rapid development of sustainable energy alternatives that can help us end our oil addiction. Yet Republicans in the Senate are blocking this bill and the President is threatening a veto. This partisan block voting is destroying our economy in exchange for short term gain by an industry sector intimately associated with this Administration.